053第471题

471.Which of the following would be affected by setting NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR?
A. All objects in the database
B. Tables owned by SYS and SYSTEM
C. Data dictionary tables
D. NCHAR columns
E. CHAR columns
Answer: E

NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS

Property	Description
Parameter type	String
Syntax	NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS = string Example: NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS = 'CHAR'
Default value	BYTE
Modifiable	ALTER SESSION
Range of values	BYTE | CHAR

The session-level value of NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS specifies the default length semantics to use for VARCHAR2 and CHAR table columns, user-defined object attributes, and PL/SQL variables in database objects created in the session. This default may be overridden by the explicit length semantics qualifiers BYTE and CHAR in column, attribute, and variable definitions.

The instance-level value of NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS provides a default for the session-level value if NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS it is not set explicitly by the database client through the NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS client environment variable (does not apply to JDBC Thin clients), or the ALTER SESSION SET NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICSstatement.

NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, and NCLOB columns are always character-based.

Sessions logged in as SYS do not use the NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS parameter. They use BYTE length semantics for all created objects unless overridden by the explicit BYTE and CHAR qualifiers in object definitions (SQL DDL statements).